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Lunette - Zerubbabel Collins #2 LbNA #37629

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 16, 2008
Location:
City:Columbia
County:Tolland
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Nomad Indian Saint
Found by: SherlockMiles
Last found:Nov 6, 2022
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 28, 2015
Have you ever marveled at the 18 and early 19th century headstones of our ancestors? The colonial burying grounds of New England represent some of the most wondrous carvings and are treasure troves of information and beauty of many kinds. The stones are the “persisting symbols of an art form that is largely indigenous, that reached a high level of abstract complexity and beauty that died away in an amazingly short period of time.”

The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. Zerubbabel was the talented son of Benjamin Collins and carved his father’s gravestone. His most characteristic work, which developed a few years after his father died, consists of a large, prominent jawed, deeply incised face with small wings arising from the face and below this an elaborate carving and twisting scroll-like flower design. (Mature type stone)

Old Yard Cemetery – Columbia, CT

Squeeze through the gate and walk west downhill until there is a 5 foot stone to your left shoulder. Now go south 10 steps and look to the famous white stone of Lydia Bennett (1791) used as an advertisement piece for Zerubbabel’s work. (Notice the cost of 7 dollars carved in the base of the stone.) Now go all the way to the west end of the cemetery to the 3 stones on the northern side (1st row), which are other fine examples of the mature style of carving. From here, turn around and you will see a 3 sister tree and an obvious trap door in the stone wall a little to the left of the tree. Please respect stone walls and put everything back in its place.